AlterEgo Aesthetics

25/08/2026

✨ AWARDS SEASON ✨

We are absolutely delighted to share that AlterEgo Aesthetics has been nominated for the prestigious CMA Awards for the FIFTH consecutive year 🥹🏆

Five years in a row.

When I actually stop and think about that, it feels pretty special. Every year our clinic has grown, evolved and pushed itself to be better.. not just in the treatments we offer, but in the standards we set, the education we provide and the experience we create for our patients.

And this year, there’s even more to celebrate…

We are also finalists in the BAMAN Awards for Best Social Media Strategy! 🎉

This one means so much because our social media has never just been about pretty before-and-afters. We’ve worked hard to use our platform to educate, start conversations, challenge misinformation, promote safer aesthetic practice and show the real people and values behind our clinic.

To have that recognised by our professional association feels incredibly special.

None of this happens without our amazing team, our patients who continue to trust us, support us and recommend us, and everyone who follows, shares, comments and engages with what we do.

From a little idea that started back in 2019 to being recognised nationally five years running… I’ll never take it for granted.

Now we just need to find something to wear… 😂🥂

CMA Awards finalist × 5 🏆
BAMAN Best Social Media Strategy finalist 🏆

BEYOND GRATEFUL. 🤍

23/08/2026

This week has been tough.

I’ve had three looming deadlines which, normally, are exactly the kind of pressure I thrive on. But this week has felt different.

I’ve been unwell. I’ve had family anniversaries that have hit harder than I expected. There have been shifts in dynamics, things changing around me, and things I’m still trying to process.

I’ve cried more this week than I probably have in the last year.

I’ve battled with my GP when I already felt exhausted. I’ve had moments where I’ve genuinely wondered how I was going to keep all the plates spinning.

But somehow, I have kept moving.

I’ve shown up to work.
I’ve shown up for my family.
I’ve shown up for my friends.

I’ve dragged myself to the gym three times this week.. compared with six last week. I’ve managed around 75,000 steps.. compared with 122,000 last week.

And while part of me looks at that and sees less, another part of me knows the truth.

This week, those three gym sessions took more from me than six did last week.
Those 75,000 steps felt heavier than 122,000.
Showing up at all has taken everything I’ve had.

We talk so much about discipline, consistency, resilience and pushing through.

But maybe resilience isn’t always pushing harder.

Sometimes it’s crying, feeling every bit of it, admitting you’re struggling… and still getting up the next morning.

Sometimes progress is simply refusing to disappear from your own life when things feel heavy.

So no, this hasn’t been my strongest week.

But I’m still here.
I’m still showing up.
I’m still moving forward.

And this week, I think that counts for a lot.
Heres to a new week and new energy ✨️

15/08/2026

✨ With lots of new faces here, it feels like the perfect time to reintroduce myself!

I’m Tara 🫶 a Registered Nurse, Independent Prescriber and founder of AlterEgo Aesthetics.

I hold a Postgraduate Diploma in Aesthetic Medicine and am currently studying for a PGDip in Clinical Education, building on my experience as an educator and further developing the training I provide.

Before moving into aesthetics full-time, I worked across several areas of nursing, including specialist haematology and cancer services, vascular surgery and private post-operative care. There, I supported patients undergoing plastic, gynaecological, general, orthopaedic and ENT surgery.

I founded AlterEgo Aesthetics in 2019 and have now worked full-time in aesthetics for four years.
Im so proud to have built a multi-award-winning clinic and such an amazing group of patients within this time, Im so blessed!

I’m also incredibly proud to be a BAMAN Regional Lead, clinical educator and advocate for functional medicine and gut health.

Outside of work, I’m mum to three pretty amazing grown-up “kids” and granny to one gorgeous wee grandson.
I love travelling and I am continually challenging myself, strengthening my mindset and always chasing new goals.. whether I have the capacity to or not 😆🫣

When I’m not doing that, you’ll usually find me deep in research about whichever topic has captured my attention.. so perhaps I’m not quite as exciting as this post makes me sound! 😂

My aim is to help people feel confident and empowered through safe, ethical and evidence-based care, while educating both patients and practitioners to make informed decisions about their health, wellbeing and aesthetic treatments.

Thank you for being here and following my journey. I’d love to get to know you too.. introduce yourself in the comments! 🤍

14/08/2026

This isn’t an anti-GLP-1 post.

I’ve used the medication myself. I’ve also had weight-loss surgery. I know what it feels like to spend years fighting with your weight, doing the “right” things, training hard, trying again… and still feeling like your body isn’t cooperating.

These tools can be genuinely life-changing.

But I think we’re reaching a point where weight loss is being celebrated without always asking what is being lost with it.

Muscle. Strength. Nutrition. Energy. Healthy eating habits. And, for some people, a healthy relationship with food and the number on the scales.

The medication can reduce appetite and help you feel fuller for longer.

But it can’t choose nutrient-dense food for you. It can’t hit your protein goals. It can’t protect your muscle if you’re not supporting your body properly. It can’t correct deficiencies. And it can’t address the mindset, behaviours or relationship with food that existed before the injection.

Eating less is not automatically the same as eating well.

That’s the conversation I think we’re missing.

Because alongside the huge rise in GLP-1 use, we’re also seeing unregulated products, misinformation online and people navigating significant weight loss with very little education or ongoing support.

So next week I’m opening this conversation properly, giving you the real DL on weightloss medication, through my own personal experience and as a registered nurse with lived experience.

We’ll be talking about GLP-1 medications, weight-loss surgery, protein and muscle loss, vitamins and deficiencies, electrolyte balance, exercise, mindset, disordered eating and.. probably one of the biggest pieces.. what happens when the weight-loss phase ends.

And I’ll be finishing the week LIVE with Louise, a GLP-1 educator, where we’ll answer as many of your questions as we can.

So tell me below 👇

What do you wish somebody had explained to you before starting weight-loss medication?

What are you struggling with now?

And what do you want us to talk about on the live?

No judgement. No scare tactics. No medication bashing.

Just a much-needed conversation about how we can use these tools to become healthier, not simply lighter.

12/08/2026

Next week, I want to open up a conversation that I think we really need to be having.

Weight loss. GLP-1 medications. Weight-loss surgery. And most importantly, what happens when the focus becomes losing weight at any cost.

Weight has been part of my own story for pretty much my whole life. I know what it feels like to battle with it, to lose weight, regain it, obsess over the number on the scales and believe that being smaller would somehow fix everything.

My own journey eventually included weight-loss surgery, significant weight loss and a completely different understanding of what being “healthy” actually means.

So I’m not coming at this conversation from a place of judgement. I’m coming at it as someone who has lived it and as a healthcare professional who is becoming increasingly concerned by what I’m seeing.

GLP-1 medications can be incredible tools when they are used appropriately. But the uneducated, unsupported and sometimes completely unregulated use of these drugs worries me enormously.

People chasing lower and lower numbers on the scales.

Not eating enough protein.

Losing significant muscle mass.

Not meeting basic nutritional requirements.

Vitamin and mineral deficiencies.

Electrolyte disturbances.

Increasing doses despite already being at a healthy weight.

Buying products with little or no clinical oversight.

And somewhere along the way, we seem to have forgotten that weight loss and health are not automatically the same thing.

I genuinely believe that if we don't start educating people properly around this, we could be heading towards another health problem entirely — created not by the medications themselves, but by how they are being used.

So next week, we’re going to talk about it.

GLP-1s. Weight-loss surgery. Nutrition. Muscle loss. Supplementation. Body image. The psychology of weight loss. And what healthy weight management should actually look like.

Then on Friday I’m going LIVE to have a proper conversation about it.

👇 I want your input before I do.

What questions do you have?

What have you experienced?

What are you worried about?

And what do you think nobody is talking about enough?

Drop it in the comments or send me a DM. Nothing is too basic, awkward or controversial — I want this to be a conversation that actually helps people.

Because losing weight might change your body.

But protecting your health has to remain the priority.

08/08/2026

04/08/2026

To women everywhere…

To the ones who look in the mirror and don't recognise the person staring back

To the ones who shy away from photographs, turn their face to find the “better side,” or quietly delete the ones they don’t like.

To the ones who won’t leave the house without makeup, not because they love wearing it, but because somewhere along the way, it became a security blanket.

To the ones who decline invitations, avoid nights out, or say they are “too busy” when the truth is they no longer feel confident enough to walk into the room.

To the ones who avoid certain lighting, video calls, or catching their reflection unexpectedly.

To the ones who know ageing is a privilege, yet still find parts of it difficult to accept.

To the ones who feel guilty for caring because there are bigger things in life.

To the ones who miss the face they remember, even though they are deeply proud of the woman they have become.

You are not shallow.

You are not vain.

You are not ungrateful.

And you do not have to quietly disappear because your confidence has changed.

You are still allowed to take up space.

To be seen.

To be photographed.

To walk into the room without wondering who is looking at you.

To wear the makeup because you love it.. not because you feel you need to hide behind it.

Ageing does not make you less powerful, less beautiful or less worthy of being noticed.. infact, you have qualities your younger self only dreamed of possessing.

And while none of us can stop time, we do have the power to decide how we meet it.

We can embrace every change.

We can choose to make changes.

We can do both.

There is no single right way to age.

The power lies in knowing that the choice is yours 🫶

02/08/2026

Wholesome weekend spent celebrating with family and friends 🫶🥂

Belfast Hen for my wee cousin LauraAnn and celebrating our friends the new Mr and Mrs Marks 🥂

Then finished off with a much anticipated Auntie Date with this wee diva ❤️

Now for an early night ready to start the week strong tomorrow 💪 Gym, food prep and some business planning..

Hope you enjoy miss Davynn's 'Yes day'.. tiktok mad and loved making this today lol 🫠😂